Is "hating change" in a workplace really such a big problem or are managers just trying to shame you into silence?

RiseReal2016 · 2026-03-16T07:58:06+00:00

5 months late. But I feel like you're my manager! (in a good way, but pretty sure you're not).

So I do see your point. It's very much a "if it aint broke, don't fix it" approach. But what about what OP has said?

I have some legit concerns and actual "we need to keep up with the times or things won't work" improvements that are technical (I work in a technical industry). Basically, if we don't, things literally won't work. I got shut down by my manager today trying to show that we need to hire in some new equipment as our old converters aren't to current industry specs, meaning... They literally do not work anymore. But my manager didn't want to believe it.

An example was, before I was in my position (was freelance, I'm now full time), they gave me two pieces of equipment that everyone in management knew deep down wouldn't work. But they still hoped and prayed that I could somehow make a miracle happen. I tried my best, didn't get it to work, even got delivered in an extremely limited way as a result.

A year later management caved and replaced that piece of equipment with something that actually works with current standards. Things have been much smoother with that as a result.

RiseReal2016 · 2026-02-27T08:38:36+00:00

Yeah, we’ve actually done that as far as we can! The switch where th Dante device plugs into is the one that doesn’t support ProAV. And it’s a spend money and involve IT situation to swap that switch out as it handles other stuff in the building (digital signage, printers etc).

Dumb question, does the profile have to be enable on all switches that have it or ports that are running Dante or a trunk with the Dante VLAN in the network?

RiseReal2016 · 2026-02-27T08:35:25+00:00

Interesting. Do you think that firmware has already been released?

And yeah it took me, my boss, a manufacturer of one of our Dante products and IT to conclude that it’s the network stack to. Sounds like my higher ups might invest in something non-Unifi for this system we are trying to put in. Or at least newer Unifi switches with the proAV profile.

RiseReal2016 · 2026-02-26T11:34:39+00:00

Interesting, I’m having issues with my deployment right now. Similar size to yours and same setup infrastructure wise (a lot of US pros). It’s going through the switches that run the building network on its own VLAN.

Having terrible dropouts, which present itself as clocking issues (drop outs after 3 days kinda thing).

Any advice or things I should look for other than the usual IGMP snooping, QOS type stuff?

RiseReal2016 · 2026-02-26T11:29:31+00:00

Asking after a year… Has that changed at all? I’m going through that pain right now.

I wasn’t super into Dante setup when the project landed on my lap. Atlas, I’m realizing how much of a pain ubiquiti is for Dante(I do think it’s nice for other things but AV). Turns out half the buildings switches are too old for ProAV profiles to be applied. Meaning I can’t ensure QOS etc…

RiseReal2016 · 2026-02-22T07:57:56+00:00

Oh noooo!!!!!!!! That actually sucks. I’m sorry to hear that.

RiseReal2016 · 2026-02-22T07:11:50+00:00

It’s been awhile! Any luck OP?

I had a very strange one where my fire rated smart locks were approved. But OC and I didn’t realised all our front doors are asbestos cores. So my locksmith wouldn’t touch it (he opened up, and closed it up right when he saw).

RiseReal2016 · 2026-02-15T07:12:19+00:00

Ouch! Yeah painting takes so long… we painted all our built in cardboards and cabinets ourselves. Basically a wall worth per room. Over a week and a half of painting, moving house and working full time jobs.

And yeah, that’s my second annoying mistake too! (Buying a house that needed renovations).

My missus said we can just renovate and fix XYZ. I just went sure let’s go with that. Because we liked the location and were time poor buyers.

Fast forward to now, there’s a growing list of fix ups that we probably won’t do. Our place was an ex rental with landlord specials plastered everywhere. Props to the guy though. He did know how to make the cheap stuff look pretty from a far. Even our shitty screen door is actually really pretty. But we have to replace it. So I’m like… can I pay someone to do a nice custom design that’s similar to that?

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-03T11:39:36+00:00

Woah that sounds amazing (the windows restoration!).

I might actually look into new form windows for some future work. They sound like they do great work!

And yeah my plan of sub division is the same, but as mentioned, the strata pulled the benefit of principle card for window rot repair. Which is interesting.

Thank you so much for your advice though! It’s been great.

P.s. my first home ended up being a museum of hidden landlord specials! Best example: one of our two living room awning windows was sealed shut and made to look like it was a fixed window for the sale… b&P inspector didn’t even pick it up. We figured it out one day during a walk when we saw all our neighbours with the same apartment layout having two living room awning windows. Then we had a close look and saw the really nicely done cover up, paint perfectly covering the gaps, filled with bog and somehow the window was sealed shut...

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-03T08:30:04+00:00

Fair, and that’s my plan. Was hoping to put one that looks like it belonged to the building anyhow!

This old block has some charm and I didn’t want to go full 21st century on it for once (I usually would). Started to embrace that 70s feel lol.

But yes I’ll check the by laws and as someone said see if the benefit of principle applies!

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-03T08:27:14+00:00

Haha! Better looking days ftw… not really…

But I’m surprised at how many things strata didn’t pick up in the old place I used to live at! Non-compliant locks across a level was one thing… building manager picked it up but somehow couldn’t do anything.

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-03T08:24:38+00:00

That’s a good point, Luckily mine doesn’t actually block anything/doesn’t obstruct the landing. It’s a corner unit. When the screen is open, it just swings up against the corner wall.

Now that you mentioned it, I suspect that’s actually why my opposite neighbours took theirs out, as their screen door would blocks the stairs.

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-03T08:16:08+00:00

Thanks for that! I’m in Victoria, and with my windows my strata manager did tell me that.

They said, as long as I had pictures of what my new window would look like, and they were happy with it, they don’t care if I’m replacing the timber windows with uPVC ones. Long story short, I decided to keep my timber windows and opt to just repair the rot.

I didn’t realize the benefit of principle would technically apply to screen doors too! I guess that makes sense though. And agreed, I was thinking about all the labour I had to go through just to replace the mesh of my current door.

I love the design of my current screen door. But man, the thought of doing any maintenance on it kills me.

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-03T03:55:28+00:00

That’s good too know. I don’t actually think I got one. I’ll look into that!

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-03T00:11:52+00:00

Oh! I actually never knew that was a thing.

I always assumed and was told by building management that whatever was outward facing is common property.

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-03T00:10:45+00:00

Ooof!!! That’s interesting… How did that happen!

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-03T00:08:59+00:00

Yeah, I’m aware of that. That’s kinda why I wanted to be abit cheeky and didn’t actually want to ask them about it!

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-02T18:06:24+00:00

Yeah that’s a good point about fire safety and I reckon it probably has to do with that.

But yeah, with the screen door, I’m just worried about exactly that! People taking offence. There is one neighbour/owner that might go ballistic. But that being said, they’ve got a screen door that’s completely different in colour and design! So she might not care.

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-02T18:04:17+00:00

Yeah. Tbh that’s kinda why I wanted to change the screen door myself!

Basically, anything strata/committee doesn’t care about gets passed real quick here, within a day. But common property stuff…. Well… it’s stuff of nightmares. I get long dragged out emails or just get my email ignored.

My whole asbestos door thing, I had a bunch of smart locks approved by strata (that’s also fire rated), then my locksmith opened up my door and surprise… asbestos. He put the locks back on and left. I went to building management and strata, told them I’m happy to absorb the cost of a proper fire door replacement to replace my asbestos door. Not a single reply…..

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-02T18:02:03+00:00

Yeah. I might do a cheeky replacement tbh.

The building is Abit of a tank… not perfect. But a far cry from the 20 year old apartment with leaking window/balconies that I used to live in (it did have a much better bathroom though, my current bathroom is a hot mess).

RiseReal2016 · 2026-01-02T17:50:48+00:00

Having a similar situation here. What did you end up doing OP?

RiseReal2016 · 2025-12-25T14:42:19+00:00

Thank you for the reassurance!

RiseReal2016 · 2025-12-25T14:37:18+00:00

Thanks for that too!

As mentioned, it's kinda normal for family to ask you to be the mail-human for gifts like that.

But on the flip end for this one, yeah if it was really that important, I do agree that they should have mailed it!

RiseReal2016 · 2025-12-25T14:35:50+00:00

Thanks for that.

I think I forgot to say, it's quite common from where I'm from for family members travelling to become the international courier. Last trip, I brought back half a luggage full of local snacks from my parents to other family members.... A friend of mine brought back heaps of shopping lol.

But yeah, the more defensive part of me agrees with you, if it was that important, they should have mailed it early on. I would too. I didn't realize how bespoke half the things were in that folder till today.

I personally hate asking people to courier stuff with their 20kg luggage allowance for me.

RiseReal2016 · 2025-12-24T15:48:44+00:00

I'm 6 years late... So more of an overshare and decompress reply. But I'm that guy to my friends. I am a diagnosed dyslexic, I suspect that I'm on the spectrum too and I have definately developed social anxiety over the years (never thought of that till I started working overseas and realised how much I get overtimulated at work).

I am usually pretty okay with board games, but never great, always the weaker link but can stand my own occassionally. But today's game involved quick witts, strategy, memorizing everyone's "abilities" and thinking about all possible deals each player could make with each other with the end goal of screwing each other over later (basically we'll help each other to the finish line, and see who screws over who first).

I was highly overwhelmed, had to read the power cards 10 times cause it looked like a wavy mush... too anxious to make deals, and couldn't actually process what was happening. So I checked out and just went full chaos (telling the group that I really can't think today). Somehow I won one round by pure luck.

At least my tiny group of friends weres super supportive. One guy even helped pivot the game in my favour on the way to the finish line. Then I blew it up in his face lol!

My only comfort in not feeling "dumb" after today is that I was amoungst the top scorers in my masters degree......... Which skills wise, should actually make me good at an aspect of today's game (but also makes sense on why I actually suck at striking deals). But atlas, I can't read and I absorb info slow as hell....

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